I don't think defining specific isotopic ratios will be out of the question for molecular printers. If you want to make a block of wood that seems like it's a thousand years old you just fill your carbon cartridge with the correct ratio of carbon 14.

Any historical media that is exclusively digital can be forged. Once we have molecular level 3-D printers, all physical historical artifacts can potentially be forged and altered. We have to look at a possible future where there in no way to verify any historical fact, an historical fact being anything that happened more than a nanosecond ago.

That's what I get for using hard coded constants.

25 year old son Hey dad, do you have a watch I can borrow?

Father I have a watch in my top drawer, but the battery ran out.

22 year old son That's okay. I'm going to bar tonight, I don't need the watch to actually tell time.

Depends on the severity of the culling. If monsters suddenly appeared in Holland and ate everyone under 2 meters tall in one night, evolution would happen rather quickly.

Hey! It was a Canadian who wrote the most popular song about irony where most of her examples were more tragic or unfortunate than ironic--so the most popular song about irony isn't really about irony at all, which is really quite ironic, don't ya think? Which . . . come to think of it . . . might be what she was trying to accomplish through meta-irony! Boy this is starting to hurt my head. Maybe I am too stupid to understand irony. Oh wait, you weren't talking about Americans, you were talking about Amercians, those people from Amercia. Never mind.

It would be even more ironic if Shortguy881 was Dutch!

I come to slashdot for the rye remarks.

Is "you" singular or plural?

You do realize that by doing so you would kill the pun, thus depriving many people of the only humor they understand.

I like the flexibility of English spelling. It is actually useful. Since there are many ways to spell the same sounds, you can spell different words that sound the same differently. That way you don't have to rely on contexts exclusively. For instance: "He went to room number five two." vs "He went to room number five too."

I know it bothers some people, but I use the singular "they" for a gender neutral third person pronoun. I think once a person gets used to it they will prefer it to "he or she".

We have a guy in the office we sometimes refer to as "Spock", or sometimes as "the Oracle". He's the expert. The rest of us are advanced at best.

Once the internet is officially no longer anonymous, you'll see the power skew significantly toward 'the Man'.

Sorry, I meant 'Your drone' not 'You are drone' Not enough time between compiles these days to check things.